******I expected a pretty good song from Zayn but I didn't think we'd get something this good. It's catchy, it's fun, it's dark, it's got everything going for it. I really hope this can hold onto it's hype and be a proper hit!

***Although both he and Gigi together have less charisma than a piece of blank paper I don't mind this; the production is solid. That said it did not deserve to chart as great in any territory on the planet.

***This is a very average track. It is alright, not spectacular. It got to #1 due t the benefit of today of instantly releasing a song, so most people how want to hear it buy it, as opposed to the old days where you could hear it on the radio or TV for 2 weeks before being forced to buy it. If you didn't like it, you didn't have to buy it.

I admit my opinion is a little bit clouded by the persona of Zayn the musician. It's not so much that he was in One Direction, it's just that he is trying so hard to distance himself from One Direction that I am developing an irrational dislike for anything connected to him. From his whinge that he never wanted to be part of One Direction. That he hasn't listened to the last album, to the unnecessary swearing in this song, the one name moniker. It all comes across as a little too try hard. Even when Robbie Williams left Take That he didn't rub me the wrong way like Zayn has.

Maybe over time I will begin to like his music, similar to how I have grown to like some of Justin Timberlake solo stuff. Hopefully Zayn will follow Justin's path and lose some of the ego that he currently has. Its better to embrace your past than pretend it never happened. Until that day happens, this songwill remain at an average score of 3.

**I really like the production and I think given to almost anyone else to handle with different lyrics, it would have been an incredibly enjoyable effort. As it is though, we have ZAYN, with his whining vocal and some terrible lyrics. Alas.

Firstly, the song doesn't even sound finished for starters. It sounds like it is going for more of a minimalist sound, but rather, it just sounds rather empty and soulless more than anything else.

Secondly, and this is an important one, the lyrics sound like their striving to be mature and insightful but completely fail in that regard. The best we get is that the sex he is having causes "pain" and "pleasure", is a "paradise" as well as a "war zone", takes place at both a "slow" and "high" tempo, that he is being held "hard" and "mellow", and that his lover is both his "enemy" and his "ally". I mean, wow, not only is his sex this thing, but it is also the exact opposite thing as well! That really is all the wisdom we get here, and it really isn't doing anything for me.

The best we get in the way of sexual imagery here is that they're going to "piss off the neighbours" with the noise they are making, and if that is the best you can do, then you have failed massively.

Furthermore, the lyrics have this violent undertone to it as well, with the mentions of the happenings being "dirty and raw" and that there is "fighting", it is a "war zone" and that they are "prisoners". These lyrics just paint a picture to me that this sex isn't consensual, but sounds rather "rape-y", for lack of a better word.

If anything, this is just proof that leaving One Direction has done nothing to improve Zayn's artistic credentials.